Borradores de Economía - Estimating the Output Gap After COVID: How to Address Unprecedented Macroeconomic Variations

Camilo Granados; Daniel Parra-Amado

Number:

1249

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.32468/be.1249

Published:

Friday, 15 September 2023

Authors:

Camilo Granados,

Daniel Parra-Amado

Classification JEL:

C11, C53, E3, E32, E37

Keywords:

Bayesian methods, Business cycles, Potential output, output gaps, Structural estimation

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